TSMC reportedly to make only GPU part of AMD Fusion

DigiTimes, 6th August 2007

Motherboard makers predict that AMD will retain production of the CPU portion of its Fusion processor at its own fabs or that of Chartered Semiconductor until at least 2009, with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) to produce the graphics processor unit (GPU) portion of the processor. AMD's Fusion processor will consist of a GPU manufactured on a 55 nm process by TSMC plus a silicon-on-insulator (SOI-) based CPU manufactured on a 45 nm process at AMD's Fab 36 and Fab 38 or outsourced to Chartered.